The Age of Middle Powers 2.0
Diksha Bharti A new generation of middle powers led by India, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, the UAE and South Koreais…
From Strategy to Sovereignty: Artificial Intelligence and the Race for Youth-Led Transformation in Central Asia
Dr Lakshmi Karlekar The absence of high-quality local language datasets needed to train Large Language Models (LLMs) could pose challenges to…
The Webs That Bind Us: Harari’s Nexus and the Power of Information Networks
Raghvendra Tripathi Despite its speculative tone, Nexus succeeds in revealing how the same dynamics that once governed religious texts and…
Balancing Sovereignty and Reciprocity: China’s 2025 Legal Strategy in Global Trade and Security
Dr Lakshmi Karlekar & Tanishaa Pandey By specifically mentioning the necessity of protecting bilateral relations from 'geopolitical turbulence,' Xi's appeal for 'unswerving' collaboration was…
Geopolitical Risk Indexing for India’s National Security: A Policy Integration Framework
Divyanka Tandon This issue brief presents a pioneering framework for integrating Geopolitical Risk Indexing (GPR) into India’s national security architecture.…
Cyber Warfare Between China and India: A 30-Year Geopolitical and Data-Driven Analysis
Cyber warfare has emerged not only as a tool for espionage but also as a means to exert…
AI’s New Empire: Unpacking OpenAI’s Quest for Global Dominance
Framed through a historical lens of imperial ambition, ‘Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI’…
Denmark’s Groundbreaking Copyright Law: Protecting Personal Identity from Deepfakes
Megna Devkar In a major move in the battle against the deluge of AI and deep fakes being generated, Denmark…
Tracking Refugee Movements with AI Models: Data-Driven Insights into Migration and Political Shifts
AI, when coupled with Data Analytics, offers a powerful toolkit to process vast volumes of unstructured data, predict…
India’s AI Moment: Aligning Ambition with Strategy and Governance
AI is too important to be left to bureaucrats and tech boards—it must be democratised—strategically, socially, and politically.